The Lancet retracted Andrew Wakefield's 1998 paper on 12 children with bowel disease and autism. Wakefield responded that the paper made no judgment about a causal link to the MMR vaccine; advocates argue the retraction was timed ahead of a primate study on the hepatitis B vaccine.
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Tylenol Linked to Increased Risk of Autism
A 2008 survey study of 83 children with autism and 80 controls linked acetaminophen use after MMR vaccination to higher odds of autistic disorder, 6.11-fold in children under five, while ibuprofen showed no association. The piece also notes The Lancet's retraction of the Wakefield paper.
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Despite Lancet Retraction, the Vaccine-Autism Controversy Remains
Mercola's post defends Andrew Wakefield after the Lancet retraction, arguing autism is rising for environmental reasons and pointing to more than 1,300 vaccine-injury payouts for encephalopathy, encephalitis or seizure disorders as reason to keep the vaccine question open.
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Lancet retracts paper on vaccine-autism link
The Lancet retracted Andrew Wakefield's 1998 paper tying MMR vaccine to autism in 12 children, after the UK General Medical Council ruled several elements incorrect and found the claims of consecutive referral and ethics approval false. Some experts say that does not settle the question.
Vitamins
Vitamin D newsletter: More letters on vitamin D and autism
A Vitamin D Council newsletter reprinting three reader letters sent in response to an earlier issue on autism, among them an aunt's account of her nephew's speech and mood improving after she gave him 2,000 IU of vitamin D a day.
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Fish oil may help autism
In a small Israeli trial, ten children with autism spectrum disorder took one gram of omega-3 fatty acids daily for 12 weeks, and eight of nine improved by 33 percent. The authors call the supplements safe and possibly helpful.
Vitamins
The Vitamin D newsletter: Another autism case report
The Vitamin D Council gives an entire newsletter to one mother's unedited case report of her son's autism, which began around age 2.5 with sleeplessness, anxiety, obsessive repetitive questions, sensory aversions, toe-walking and self-stimulating behaviors.
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New Study Negates Autism/Mercury Link
A study in Environmental Health Perspectives of 452 children aged 2 to 5 found those with autism carried lower blood mercury than typically developing children, a gap researchers attributed to their eating less fish. The piece notes the study has problems of its own.
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New Harvard Paper on Autism
John Cannell's newsletter responds to a Harvard paper by Dennis Kinney and colleagues that accepts the vitamin D theory of autism and adds five environmental toxins. Cannell objects that pollution theories cannot explain the timing, since U.S. air and water were dirtier decades ago.
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Vitamin D Theory of Autism
John Cannell of the Vitamin D Council sets out his theory that vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy or childhood causes autism, arguing it fits identical-twin concordance, the rise in cases alongside sun avoidance, the male predominance and higher rates among blacks.
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